Calling this car pollution free is a misnomer. The car is pollution free only with respect to emissions, i.e., no smoke comes out of the exhaust. However, in absolute terms, the 8 hours that it takes to charge it has to be considered. The battery capacity is 200Ah. Which means it will consume 9.6KWh per charge. thats 10 units of power. per month that translates to 300 units. thats the equivalent of running your average washing machine for 85 hours continuously! so what it is really doing is actually polluting the world invisibly by making the fossil fuel based power stations produce more smoke out of THEIR chimneys! It might make a good advertising campaign but its the duty of the company to inform people of the real facts and allow them to make an informed decision instead of making them believe they are saving the planet by buying this car...
RE:pollution free?
by Vishal Jain on Mar 18, 2008 03:48 PM Permalink
U r a good mathematician. But did u do ur calculations on cost per running kilometre basis also vis-s-vis etrol/Diesel running vehicles?? And if u did, u'd be surprised. It ost far lower to run an electric car.
BTW, The cost of producing elecricity in power plants is far more lower than consuming Fossil fuels for producing equivalent amount of power.
RE:pollution free?
by Rajarajan on Mar 18, 2008 04:27 PM Permalink
Hello Badri,
I do understand your efforts to tell that this car might produce invisible pollution, I dont think this could lead into invisible pollution, my suggestion would be generating the green energy in all sector from Windmill, Hydro,nuclier. Most of the developed countries produce there base energy from Hydel,Wind, and nuclear, Hence is believe these kind of inovation will produce 70% of the pollution world wide, I look forward for your comments.
This, the Tara Shuttle, sort of mini bus does really look beautiful with its vibrant colours. But then, issues such as regular maintenance of these vehicles together with erratic power supply in our ountry can ruin their plans.
Truly, I congratulate those who are behind these electric vehicles. A little bit of further R&D into it and i think we can be relieved of the pressure building up by the fast-depleting fuel reserves!
RE:Wonderful!
by subhash nil on Mar 18, 2008 04:31 PM Permalink
One has to see the indirect cost hiden that has to be born by the society. It looks to be very attractive oraly yet ifs & buts to be wieghed in terms of intangible benefits of the product.
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It is so strange when people herald the rise of battery-driven cars, as the end of pollution in the world.
What they dont realize is that the electricity is still being generated by thermal power stations that use non-renewable sources - the most common of which in India is coal. It is a different thing in Europe, USA, etc. where nuclear energy is more widely used for power generation.
So essentially what you are doing is not curbing on pollution at all, but only shifting its source from the CAR to a Thermal Power Station.
Isnt the logic so evident for anyone to understand it??
RE:Wrong Statement
by swamy on Mar 18, 2008 03:31 PM Permalink
no, electric cars are the future, electric supply is slowly goign to go nuclear, it is obviously going to happen, so electric cars are the future, but these are just chineeese junk
RE:Wrong Statement
by Gr on Mar 18, 2008 03:47 PM Permalink
everything is US is chinese only, but definitely they get better quality products than india which is a dumping ground for all useless items....
i dont like the fact that these cars are chinese junk which are being assembled in india. but ofcourse, all leading laptop companies are selling us chinese made stuff. so i cannot blame these guys. i do not also understand as to why all electric cars are made to look like that they have come out of a circus. heart shaped headlamps! give me a break. but if this company has to prosper they need to have to worry about aftersales. but i hope that they will get away from tie ups with china and manufacture their own cars.
RE:RE:5th Picture
by guru on Mar 18, 2008 03:38 PM Permalink
That is the plug point for charging. I have seen this vehicle in china. There is nothing wrong with this vehicle.
